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NewsFS names CEO
Renato Mazzoncini has been appointed as CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane. Formerly CEO of FS subsidiary Busitalia, he replaces Michele Mario Elia, who resigned on November 26 along with Chairman Marcello Messori and the entire FS board. The new board appointed by a shareholders meeting on November 27 ...
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NewsThailand – Malaysia DMU service launched
ASIA: A twice-daily cross-border passenger service between Hat Yai in Thailand and Padang Besar in Malaysia was inaugurated by officials from State Railway of Thailand and KTMB with a ceremony at Hat Yai on December 21. Regular services began the following day. The services on the 60 km route are ...
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NewsRebuilt snow blower on the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
SWITZERLAND: Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn is keeping its Oberalp Pass route open this winter using a snow clearing vehicle which has been completely rebuilt by Schmidt. The metre-gauge vehicle which was previously used on the Rhätische Bahn’s Bernina route is more than 50 years old. After being acquired by MGB it ...
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NewsSouth Tirol operating contract signed
ITALY: The South Tirol government and Trenitalia signed a new contract for the operation of local passenger services on December 21, saying the new deal focused on quality, reliability and lower costs. The decision to retain Trenitalia as the operator of the four routes when the previous contract expired was ...
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NewsTfL chooses Bakerloo Line extension alignment
UK: Transport for London is to begin detailed technical work on a southern extension of London Underground’s Bakerloo Line next year, it announced on December 17. TfL opened a public consultation in September 2014 on two proposed routes to extend the line from Elephant & Castle to Lewisham. It ...
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NewsAFE to install satellite train control
URUGUAY: State railway authority AFE has awarded a contract for the introduction of a satellite-based train control system, which is due to be rolled out across 1 600 route-km over the next four years. Under the contract signed on December 21 by AFE President Wilfredo Rodriguez and Minister of Transport ...
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NewsGrand Paris Express funded
FRANCE: Project promoter Société du Grand Paris announced last month that funding had been agreed for the three remaining lines of the Grand Paris Express metro network. These include the northern section of Line 17 from Le Bourget to aLe Mesnil-Amelot, expected to cost €18bn and comprising 19·5 km of ...
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NewsGreat Western AT300 trainsets to be built in Italy
UK: Hitachi announced on December 22 that the AT300 trainsets ordered for Great Western Railway are to be manufactured at Hitachi Rail Italy’s plant at Pistoia in Italy. GWR and leasing company Eversholt Rail signed the £361m contract for the trainsets in July, before Hitachi’s acquisition of AnsaldoBreda was completed ...
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NewsPanamá City orders more Line 1 trainsets
PANAMA: Metro de Panama has awarded a €145m contract to a consortium led by Alstom and including Thales, Sofratesa, CIM and TSO for the supply of additional rolling stock and associated work to lengthen trainsets on Panamá City metro Line 1. Alstom’s share of the contract is €130m, and ...
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NewsTfL granted powers to rebuild Bank
UK: The Department for Transport has granted a Transport & Works Act Order to Transport for London, giving it legal powers to start the remodelling of Bank station in central London.Bank is the third-busiest station on the London Underground network, handling more than 52 million passengers per year and serving ...
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NewsDB places Berlin S-Bahn rolling stock order
GERMANY: DB subsidiary S-Bahn Berlin GmbH has signed a framework contract for up to 1 380 electric multiple-unit cars with a consortium of Stadler Pankow and Siemens. The base order comprises 85 four-car and 21 two-car trainsets, to be used on the Ring and southeastern branches pf the 800 V ...
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NewsSiemens selected to supply Moorgate suburban EMU fleet
UK: Passenger franchisee Govia Thameslink Railway announced on December 22 that it had selected Siemens as preferred bidder for a contract to supply 25 six-car electric multiple-units for use on Great Northern suburban services from Welwyn Garden City, Hertford, Stevenage and Letchworth into London's Moorgate station from 2018. The ...
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NewsWindhoff designs high performance on-track machines for SBB
SWITZERLAND: Windhoff Bahn- und Anlagentechnik has announced details of the 35 self-propelled on-track machines which it is to supply to Swiss Federal Railways under the largest single contract which the company has won. Deliveries are scheduled from spring 2017 until 2021, with the first five vehicles to undergo six months ...
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NewsFirst metro Line M5 trainset arrives in București
ROMANIA: CAF has delivered the first of eight trainsets that it is supplying for metro Line M5 in București. The train was transported by Rail Cargo Group and arrived on December 18, one month earlier than stipulated in the contract with CAF. Metro operator Metrorex exercised an option in ...
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NewsWork begins on Auckland’s City Rail Link
NEW ZEALAND: Preliminary work for the City Rail Link in Auckland started on December 21 with a ceremony on the corner of Victoria Street and Albert Street. The 3·4 km route would run mostly through twin tunnels up to 42 m below the surface to connect the current Britomart ...
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NewsNew curve to speed up journeys to Zakopane
POLAND: Infrastructure manager PKP PLK announced on December 21 that it is to build a curve between Kraków Zabłocie and Kraków Krzemionki stations. According to PKP PLK, this will enable faster journeys between Kraków Główny and Zakopane, Skawina and Oświęcim. The work is to be carried out for 258m ...
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NewsTouax acquires 2 000 GE wagons
EUROPE: Leasing company Touax announced on December 21 that its Touax Rail subsidiary had acquired approximately 2 000 wagons from GE Rail Services GmbH, GE Capital Rail Services Ltd and GE Capital Rail Ltd. Touax said the vehicles it had acquired were ‘complementary’ to those it already manages; they ...
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NewsOman Rail phase two approved
OMAN: A royal decree issued on December 20 declared the second phase of the planned 2 135 km national railway project to be a public utility project. The decree grants powers for land acquisition for Phase 2, which would run south to Fahud from a connection with the Al ...
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NewsSound Transit approves 2016 budget
USA: Puget Sound transport authority Sound Transit approved a $1·2bn budget for 2016 on December 17. ‘Our region’s commuters will see historic progress in 2016’, said Chair Dow Constantine. ‘We will open light rail extensions to Capitol Hill, the University of Washington and Angle Lake and successfully complete our ...
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NewsLithuanian Railways signs Nordic Investment Bank loan
LITHUANIA: National railway LG signed a €50m, 15-year loan agreement with Nordic Investment Bank on December 14. This is the fifth NIB loan to LG since 2009, and takes the total value to €266m. The loan will be used along with EU funds to finance infrastructure projects from LG’s ...